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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mayhew say separates animals from plants?
(a) The necessity of finding food.
(b) The force of breath.
(c) Mobility.
(d) Nothing.

2. How many visits per day did each missionary make on average?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

3. When did the magician's father die?
(a) When the magician was 2.
(b) When the magician was 10.
(c) He was still alive at the time of the interview.
(d) When the magician was 25.

4. What does the author say beggars often spent considerable amounts of money buying?
(a) Costumes.
(b) Wine.
(c) Women.
(d) Lamb.

5. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?
(a) He doesn't mention their education.
(b) They were the least eductated of all the common people discussed.
(c) They usually only have one or two years of schooling and if they can read, it is not too well.
(d) They are better educated than street vendors, and the majority could read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the casual ward provide?

2. For how long had the clown worked in that capacity?

3. What did the magician earn at the time of Mayhew's interview with him?

4. What were buskers?

5. Why did the puppeteer sometimes change the content of the Punch and Judy play?

Short Essay Questions

1. How prevalent was theft, where did it often occur and how did a thief make money on stolen goods?

2. What does Mayhew say someone who is unable to work must do and how does he feel about those able to work who won't?

3. What did conductors do and how did they get paid? What kind of person might become a conductor?

4. Why did the author say "Dolly shops" were suspect?

5. What differentiated street folk from patterers?

6. What was describe that was similar to modern crack houses, what were they like? What happened to the girl the author wrote about who was lured from home?

7. What was the photographer's business like according to Mayhew?

8. What kind of education did many of the street folk have, what types of families did many of them come from and how did many of them start out?

9. What was a "Dolly mop" and who did the author consider one?

10. How are the various ways to earn a living cataloged and what types of workers existed in England?

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